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To the Inner-City Pastor and Church
An open letter to a church tempted to abandon its calling
Gardner Taylor

Topics:Authenticity, Character, Community impact, Culture, Empowerment, Missional, Relevance, Servanthood
Filters:Church board, Discipleship, Missions, Outreach, Pastor
Purpose:Discipleship
References:Revelation 2:7
Date Added:February 12, 2008

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As the first Galahads of the Cross used the Roman highways to spread the gospel, though they were built for different reasons, so you must make the circumstances in which you and your people live serve my cause. You live in a capitalistic society. Make it serve me, whatever the intentions might be of those who are its economic royalists.

In my name, every Christian church in the inner cities of America ought to develop an endowment fund for community redemption and renewal. Make money for the kingdom of God. Let the interest from these funds, in my name, reach out to the least of my brothers and sisters. Never forget in all we do that we are to be judged at last not by creeds or crowds, not by buildings or budgets, but by the one who says that in those we count the lowliest and the least, it was really I who was "hungry" and "thirsty," "a stranger," "naked," and "in prison."

Through it all, like a master theme, in your preaching and practice, by lip and by life, there ought to sound the saints' glad, grateful, grand refrain: "For thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign … " Forever!

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